There were no trustees, because they had all gone to the war.

Senator Culver had been killed in the fighting in Tennessee, but she heard that Colonel Kenton was alive and well and with Bragg's army.
The affairs of the Union, she continued, were not going well in Tennessee and Kentucky.

The terrible Confederate cavalryman Forrest had suddenly raided Murfreesborough in Tennessee, where Union regiments were stationed, and had destroyed or captured them all.

Throughout the west the Southerners were raising their heads again.

General Bragg, it was said, was advancing with a strong army, and was already farther north than the army of General Buell, which was in Tennessee.